Inspiring Quotes by Pierre Corneille - Page 2

"He who pardons easily invites offense"

"He who is hated by all can not expect to live long"

"He who does not fear death cares naught for threats"

"Desire increases when fulfillment is postponed"

"Danger breeds best on too much confidence"

"One is often guilty by being too just"

"Oh rage! Oh despair! Oh age, my enemy!"

"I have deserved neither so much honor or so much disgrace"

"Each instant of life is a step toward death"

"An example is often a deceptive mirror, and the order of destiny, so troubling to our thoughts, is not always found written in things past"

"After having won a scepter, few are so generous as to disdain the pleasures of ruling"

"Master of the universe but not of myself, I am the only rebel against my absolute power"

"Just vengeance does not call for punishment"

"It is the crime not the scaffold which is the disgrace"

"I don't know how to defend myself: surprised innocence cannot imagine being under suspicion"

"He who plays advisor is no longer ambassador"

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